3They said, |Yahweh, the God of Israel, why has this happened in Israel, that there should be today one tribe lacking in Israel?|


In Context

1 Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah, saying, |There shall not any of us give his daughter to Benjamin as wife.|

2 The people came to Bethel, and sat there until evening before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept severely.

3 They said, |Yahweh, the God of Israel, why has this happened in Israel, that there should be today one tribe lacking in Israel?|

4 It happened on the next day that the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.

5 The children of Israel said, |Who is there among all the tribes of Israel who didn't come up in the assembly to Yahweh?| For they had made a great oath concerning him who didn't come up to Yahweh to Mizpah, saying, |He shall surely be put to death.|

Judges 21:3 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

21:3"O LORD , the God of Israel," they cried, "why has this happened to Israel? Why should one tribe be missing from Israel today?"

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

21:3And said, O LORD God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be to day one tribe lacking in Israel?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

21:3O Lord God of Israel, why is so great an evil come to pass in thy people, that this day one tribe should be taken away from among us?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

21:3And they said, O Jehovah, the God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be to-day one tribe lacking in Israel?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:3And they said, |O LORD, the God of Israel, why has this come to pass in Israel, that there should be today one tribe lacking in Israel?|

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

21:3And they said, O LORD, the God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be today one tribe lacking in Israel?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:3And said, O LORD God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be to-day one tribe lacking in Israel?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

21:3and say, 'Why, O Jehovah, God of Israel, hath this been in Israel — to be lacking to-day, from Israel, one tribe?'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

21:3And said, O LORD God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be to day one tribe lacking in Israel?